Motorsports
Could you paint a Car-A-Day?
The collective artistic skill of the Auto@CooOne staff would hardly equal the pinky toe of Picasso, which is why we are duly impressed with Rob Ijbema’s website called Car-A-Day. Rob began the site about a year and a half ago painting and publishing one work per day of cars in various forms of motorsport. He [...]
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Discovery HD to air three part series on Mustang Challenge
It’s been just over a year since Ford Racing unveiled the FR500S Mustang at SEMA in Las Vegas, but the spec road racer has already been through an entire season of races at some of the best tracks around North America. The Discovery Channel has been at each race capturing all the action from the [...]
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Event Alert: December Calendar of Automotive Events
We started our monthly calendar of events last month and learned almost immediately that we will never be able to make it as comprehensive as everyone would like, but that’s where you come in. Take a look at the list we’ve put together for December after the jump, and if you [...]
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Rossi in Rosso: MotoGP star drives Ferrari F2008 at Mugello
The Ferrari World Finals at Mugello finished a few weeks ago. But someone appeared to have forgotten to tell the tifosi, as a loyal garrison of the Scuderia’s most loyal fans, thousand-strong, came back out last week to the track. After the Challenge series were decided, the 16M Scuderia Spider [...]
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Dakar scrutineering, in pictures
The preparations have begun for the race formerly known as the Paris-Dakar. The entrants have begun to gather in Le Havre, France, for scrutineering before shipping out to South America for the Dakar’s run across Argentina and Chile. Mike Werner was in Normandy and captured in photographs what was going on. If you ever wondered [...]
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GT3-spec Audi R8 LMS formally unveiled at Essen
The Essen Motor Show is now underway, and one of the bigger manufacturer unveilings was Audi’s official presentation of the R8 LMS, the new GT3-spec racing car aimed at privateer teams. It’s seen as one of Audi’s so-called “three pillars” of motorsport. The automaker will not field a factory effort in the car, but it’s [...]
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Audi R15 TDI to debut at Sebring in March, attack Le Mans in June
The Audi R10 TDI is dead. Long live the R15. That’s the moniker given to the next-generation Le Mans prototype set to wear the interlocking rings. The car will make its race debut in March at the 12 Hours of Sebring, and by the time the 24 Hours of Le Mans rolls around in June, [...]
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Dream Team: Coulthard, Jordan join BBC F1 coverage
Remember how excited we got when rumors started flying about the short-list of candidates to host NBC’s version of Top Gear? Well, the BBC’s original version isn’t about to change any time soon, but another motor-related program is coming to the Beeb, and racing fans over on the British Isles have been getting all hot [...]
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Nap Time to Lap Time: 74-year-old James Hylton to race at Daytona
Racing is a young man’s pursuit. Sometimes a young lady’s pursuit, too. But try telling that to James Hylton. He was once NASCAR rookie of the year… in 1966. That’s not a typo, and he’s been racing pretty much ever since.This year Hylton will attempt to qualify once again for the Daytona 500, stock car [...]
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Lamborghini Super Trofeo hits the racetrack for first test
Lamborghini has officially tested the Gallardo Super Trofeo on the Vallelunga Race Track near Rome, and according to the Italian exotic-maker, the car destined to populate the brand’s one-make racing series is the fastest one-make car ever to lap that particular track. Lamborghini goes on to stretch the worth of this accomplishment by referring to [...]
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